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CANDY-CARTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 780,662, dated January24, 1905.

Applicationiiled January 16, 1904. Serial No. 189,244.

To @ZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, HARRY B. .InssUIg a citizen of the United States,residing at Minneapolis, in the countyof Hennepin and, State ofMinnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inOandy-Oartons;iand I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention relates to'cartons or lpaper boxes especially adapted forVvuse to contain candies and to be placed within a lpail or similarshipping-receptacle, and has for its object to improve the same in theseveral particulars hereinafter noted.

f The invention consists of the novel devices and combinations ofdevices hereinafter described, and defined in the claim.

As is a well-known fact, it is the common practice to employ7 cartons tohold candies and to pack these cartons in a pail for shipping, and it isof course very important that the entire space of the pailbe'utilized,and hence it is desirable to have a plurality of boxes ofsuch shape that they will iit together and completely iill the pail. Itis also desirable to havea carton of such form that when removed fromthe pail and opened up it will afford a tray adapted to contain thecandies. These desirable features I accomplish in my invention, which isillustrated in the accompanying drawings, and wherein like charactersindicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a candy-pail filled with my improved cartons.Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the said pail with some parts broken away.Fig. 3 is a perspective View showing, one of my improved tray-formingcartons. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the carton shown in Fig.,3converted into a tray, those portions thereof which are torn off beingindicated by dotted lines; and Fig. 5 isa plan view showing the flatpaper blank from which the convertible carton tray is constructed. f

The numeral 1 indicates the candypail, which, as is usual, flaresslightly toward its top.

I will iirst describe the cartons or boxes with regard only to theirgeneral form and without regard tothe manner in which they are puttogether and made up. To iill the cross-section of the pail, I providefive cartons, the central member lbeing rectangular in cross-section andthe surrounding cartons 2 being segmental and duplicates one of theother'. More specifically stated, the four surrounding cartons 2 havesegmental outer surfaces that fit the interior surface of the pail, haveflat bottoms which correspond in extent to and iit against the adjacentsides of the square central carton 1, and have diverging end walls thatradiate from the corners of the rectangular central box or carton.

Two layers of the above-noted supplemental cartons are employed to fillthe pail, and as a tapered flaring pail is usually employed the marginalor supplemental box-sections 2 are tapered slightly in a verticaldirection to conform to the tapered pail. This vtaper of course willnecessitate the making of the marginal cartons 2 of the lower layerslightly smaller than the corresponding cartons of the upper layer. rIhecentral rectangular cartons l of both layers maybe of the same size, andthese central cartons may be made up in any suitable way, not necessaryfor the purposes of this case to further consider.

By reference to Fig. l it will be noted that the ends of the marginalcartons 2 lie in planes which radiate from the axis of the pail, or, inother words, lie in radii of the arc of the cylindrical outer walls ofthe said marginal cartons.

Aside from the novel relation of the supplemental cartons the outer ormarginal cartons 2involve novel features of construction, which will nowbe more fully considered. These cartons in view of their form describedand in view of certain features presently to be noted are after they areopened up adapted to afford trays for holding the candy or othermaterial. Each carton 2 is preferably made up from a single blank ofquite light but tough paper, which is formedl with flaring segmentalsides 4, flaring end- 4forming sections 5, and an approximatelyrectangular bottom-forming section 6. The end sections 5 are formed withcover or lid extensions 7 and with segmental corner-folds IOO 5a. Thesegmental sides 4 are adapted to be turned upward at the dotted lines y,While the ends 5 are adapted to be turned upward on the dotted lines y.rlhe corner-folds 5 are adapted to be bent or folded on the dotted linesy2, while the lid-sections 7 are adapted to be folded on the lines g3when the box or carton is made up as shown in Fig. 3. The folded sides 4are preferably interlocked with the folds 5a by lips 5b on the latter,which engage slits 4a of the former.

One of the cover-sections 7 is formed at its end With a head 7, which isadapted to engage with slits 7b of the underlapped top section tointerlock the said two top sections 7. The said folded top sections 7are also preferably provided with lateral interlocking heads 7c, whichengage with slits 4b in the sides 4 to interlock the said sides to thesaid cover-seetions. rlhe cover-sections 7 are further preferablyprovided with downturned lips 7 d, Which are adapted to be interlappedwith the edges of the sides 4 on the inner sides thereof. As is evident,the carton made up and interlocked as above described and as illustratedin Fig. 3 will be very securely held and will be comparatively rigid.

On the dotted lines g3 in the preferred construction are rows of perforations, which adapt the cover-sections 7 to be easily torn off Whenit is desired to convert the carton into a tray, such as indicated byfull lines in Fig. 4. In Fig. 4 the parts which are torn o are indicatedby dotted lines. It is evident that the tray shown in Fig. 4 will afforda very convenient device to hold candies and will, in fact, hold all ofthe original contents of the iilled carton.

The entire device is extremely cheap to make, will leave no waste spacein the pail, and the fact that the cartons are adapted to be used astrays and that the iilled cartons themselves have ample bases on whichto rest will recommend them to the trade generally. It will of course beunderstood that the device described is capable of modiiications withinthe scope of my invention as herein set forth and claimed.

In some instances the folds 5 would be secured to the sides 4 byadhesive material or by wire fastenings.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is as follows:

A carton having a Hat bottom, divergil'ig ends and bulging top, said topbeing formed by extensions of said ends, and having interlockingengagement with each other and with the sides of the carton,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY B. JESSUP.

Witnesses:

E. H. KELIHER, F. l). MERCHANT

